Note 1226 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Dryden's Hind and Panther, Part i.:
For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen.—Wakefield.
The lines from ver. 217 to 221 are thus varied in the MS.:
Vice all abhor, the monster is too foul; Naked, indeed, she shocks us to the soul; But dressed too well, with tempting time and place, That but to pity her is to embrace. Where art thou, Vice? 'twas never yet agreed, etc.